Criminal Code Amendment (State Sponsors of Terrorism) Bill 2025 ... Interacting with deemed state entities could land you in pokey ... Another layer of counter-terror law to make us all feel safer ... More >>
My Role in Gough's Downfall ... Reporter-at-Large … Scoops that flushed out the deceit behind the Dismissal … Big anniversary chinwag in Canberra on November 11 … The combined forces of Kerr, Ellicott and cousin Garfield … Constitutional manipulation … Maurice Byers to the rescue ... Read more >>
Knit one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >>
Pay packets for top brass at the Federal Courts ... A stonking $5 million all up ... See more >>
Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >>
Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >>
News Desk Special ... Angelic death notices from the bar ... Soapy slips on FOI changes ... Unusual interlocutory costs order for Chris Dale ... Judge ticks off Abbott in letters' page ... Knock About's festive salute to the coppers ... January 19, 2015 ... Read more >>
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Sir Terence O'Rort • Tuesday, January 8, 2013 Sir Terence O'Rort dismayed by the new, modern law courts in Brisbane ... Too way out for people of traditional values ... Puzzling artworks ... Punters and practitioners bewildered ... Massive judicial over-statement
Supreme Court of Queensland Goings On ... • Friday, December 21, 2012 New entrant in barristerial portrait genre ... Swindells, the accountant ... Poole-Jones ICAC phone intercepts ... North Shore purse raid ... Dizzo judges want pay finding overturned ... Queensland's new QCs ... The High Court invents the wheel
Judges • Tuesday, December 18, 2012 ACT barristers complains about Justice Refshauge ... Reserved judgments piling-up ... Canberra practitioners livid at the delays ... Replacement CJ in contention ... Massive amount of weekend typing and RSI?
Judges • Sunday, December 16, 2012 The NSW Cabinet meets on Monday (Dec. 17) and is likely to approve Margaret Beazley's appointment as President of the Court of Appeal ... It's understood that Tom Bathurst had also been toying with other names
Margaret Beazley, Tom Bathurst Judges • Saturday, December 15, 2012 Former Supremo Anthony Whealy had lunch with The Sydney Morning Herald and on the record said he has doubts about Keli Lane's murder conviction … Appeal pending … One rule for Margaret Cunneen … Another for a retired judge
Anthony Whealy, Keli Lane, Margaret Cunneen Judges • Wednesday, December 12, 2012 UPDATE ... Wagga practitioners grizzle about Dizzo circuit judge ... Letter of complaint sent to Reg Blanch at head office ... Listings and hearing dates rejigged unceremoniously ... Practitioners fed-up ... Blanch's dismissive reply
Reg Blanch, Wagga Wagga District Court Around The Firms • Monday, December 10, 2012 Ongoing struggle between Clayton Utz and Christopher Dale … Gathering of ghosts … McCabe case, Ebner case, the Korean inheritance saga … Sleuths and leaks … Did Allan Myers give Dale advice? … Can he act for Clayton Utz against Dale?
Allan Myers QC, Christopher Dale, Clayton Utz Leverhulme • Saturday, December 8, 2012 Lord Justice Leveson transported to Australia ... New offensive word - "underpinning" ... Lord Chancellor biffs judge ... Judge biffs prosecutor ... Name game for latest royal mouth to feed ... Death of Jacintha Saldanha - "What can you expect from Orstralians?" ... Leverhulme's London Calling
Bar Talk • Wednesday, December 5, 2012 NSW bar more gender equal than its Yarraside counterpart ... Why is that so, when there are so many lovely sentiments about equality? ... VicBar actions on parental leave at odds with stated policy ... Gender correspondent Ginger Snatch reports
Roger Fitch Esq • Tuesday, December 4, 2012 Shock: the rich prefer Obama ... Democrats outvoted Republicans, but state gerrymanders keep GOP in control of the House ... Recomposition of the ultra-orthodox DC Circuit ... Rumsfeld gets torture immunity ... Native American compensation claims settled after 16-year class action ... New policy for drone assassinations ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington
Around The Firms • Friday, November 30, 2012 Lawyers' threatening letters ... Heavy handed attempts to get the media or campaigning activists to back-off ... Spectre of defamation proceedings and aggravated damages ... Huffing and puffing that goes nowhere
Ashurst, Colin Biggers & Paislet, Defamation, Eddie Obeid, ICAC, Robert Todd Procrustes • Wednesday, November 28, 2012 Once a Jolly Bagman's happy remembrance of Australian politics ... James Hardie and how "separation" replaced the "corporate veil" ... A warning: be suspicious of people, like Scott Morrison, who proclaim themselves to be Christians ... Procrustes' end-of-year bleeding-heart special
Around The Firms • Wednesday, November 28, 2012 Update ... New mega firm likely to give the bar a run for its money ... Herbert Smith Freehills - taking advocacy in-house ... New design and image based around eyesight and perception
Advocacy, CPD training, Herbert Smith Freehills Bar Talk • Monday, November 26, 2012 Queensland bar 'n' grill gets new CEO after centuries of rule by Dan O'Connor ... Selection system raises the question - who does run the bar? ... Tectonic shifts as foreigners invade the turf ... Re-minting of QCs as part of new marketing push
City Desk • Wednesday, November 21, 2012 The Map of Tasmania ... Family Court cases set to music ... Pims for the Duchess ... His Excellency, the camera assistant
Goings On ... • Tuesday, November 20, 2012 Shades of a torrid time in Townsville ... Media inquiries about Dyse ... Competition for Kirbs ... Slater & Gordon's referral fees ... How Queensland dropped out of the national profession reforms
City Desk • Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Updated on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 by
Justinian
Perpetrators of beastly college rituals protected by parents and fellows ... Barristers charge in as white knights for unruly students ... Due process for privileged ragbags ... To hell with the victims ... The outside world kept out
Judges • Sunday, November 11, 2012 Combative words ... Canberra beak objects to florid phrases from Dyson Heydon ... Debasing respect for the judicial process ... Lessons in language
Dyson Heydon, High Court, Plain Packaging case Bar Talk • Friday, November 9, 2012
Updated on Monday, November 19, 2012 by
Justinian
The ins and outs of the NSW bar council ballot ... Thumbs down for a few old stayers ... Inner sanctum remains solid
Bar council elections Bar Talk • Thursday, November 8, 2012
Updated on Friday, November 9, 2012 by
Justinian
Sydney and Melbourne bars go to the polls ... Same old candidates turn-up for re-election … Wall of men … Women fighting to be counted